To mark the official release on November 23 of my collected short Western/frontier tales, Half a Pig and Other Frontier Stories, here’s a dandy review, in full, from Booklist: Half a Pig and Other Frontier Stories by Matthew P. Mayo November 23, 2022. 304 pages,...
I recently found out that my trail-drive novel, The Too-Late Trail, (A Ralph Compton Western), was chosen as a 2022 Spur Award Finalist by Western Writers of America in the Best Western Mass Market Paperback Novel category. I’m pleased, to be sure, and even more so to...
I just learned that my novel, DILLY, is a 2021 Will Rogers Medallion Award finalist in the Young Readers category. All the best to my fellow finalists, and … Go, DILLY! Here’s a link to the full list:...
Western Writers of America recently announced its selections for the 2021 Spur Awards. I am pleased to say that Dilly was chosen as this year’s Spur Award winner in the Best Juvenile Fiction category. I congratulate all my fellow winners and finalists and wish...
Just in time for Christmas, my new novel arrives on December 16! DILLY is the story of abused orphan boy, Orville “Dilly” Dillard Jr., who travels west from Ohio to Wyoming in the summer of 1893 and ends up at the Hatterson Cattle Ranch. He gains friends—as well as a...
